In 1894, fans of the molasses-flavored, caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts known as “Cracker Jack” started f...
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Happy Birthday, “Lady!”
Today is Ambassador Lady’s 11th birthday. Mazel Tov! Lady, a Border Collie, has been the ambassador of Rabbit Hash...
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A Tail By a Hair
All tails are not alike, of course, and sometimes it seems as if a simple strand of hair (figuratively speaking) can mak...
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Happy Year of the Pig (and Hog Dogs)
Yesterday was Chinese New Year, and according to the Chinese zodiac, 2019 is the year of the pig. Speaking for ourselves...
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Ghost Head (Blowin’ in the Wind)
The conversation in the days following a Super Bowl are usually about the game, but also about the commercials. Anheuse...
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Gather ‘Round, Students of Breeds: Murdjo, Merdjan and Karabash
For anyone lucky enough to meet a Šarplaninac in person (as we were when we were in a local pub, of all places) chances...
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You Say Coolie, They Say Koolie (let’snotcall-thewholethingoff)*
In his book, The German Shepherd In Word and Picture, Max Von Stephanitz, the “father of the German Shepherd Dog,&...
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Age Before Beauty: Not Always
The phrase, “Age before beauty,” is an old phrase found in print from at least as early as 1869 (it appeared...
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Irish Setter Owners, Cover Your Necks!
Achilles, Helen of Troy, and Aphrodite were all said to have had red hair. All these millenia later, their names are st...
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The Last Laugh Goes to the “Siberian Rats”
In the last decade, the breed of dog used by most dog mushers in Alaska isn’t really a breed, it’s an amalgamat...
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Not Just a Pretty Face #12
Our series called, “Not Just Another Pretty Face” has been introducing you to dogs who aren’t just beautiful e...
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Carried Off the Mountain By Mule
Just as herding dogs have a “style” of work (eye/no eye, drove/gatherer, and so on), livestock guardian dogs...
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A Snippet of Chart Polski History
New as the breed may be to some of our readers, the Chart Polski is a very old breed, and its presence in Poland dates ...
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The Dachshund: “A Philosophy Unto Himself”
While political cartoonists commonly used images of the Dachshund to ridicule Germany during war, the breed was quite d...
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What the Iggie Isn’t
The Italian Greyhound is the smallest of the sighthound family, but it isn’t in the AKC or UKC’s hound group...
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Someone Had To Be First
“I’m shocked that Golden Retriever earned an Obedience title,” said no one ever. The very first Obedie...
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Famous Skye Terrier Owners
Most of us know that Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Victoria owned Skye Terriers. In fact, in 1840, Queen Victoria bega...
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Where You Least Expected to See a Podengo
Unless they’re assured that “the dog lives,” dog lovers rarely enjoy a dog in danger. Dog lovers (an...
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Wedge of Cheese Head?
It started out as an insult. Over thirty years ago, fans of the Chicago Bears (da Bears) football team dissed their pere...
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An Old English Sheepdog’s “Firsts”
On February 24, 1975, an Old English Sheepdog named Ch. Sir Lancelot of Barvan became the first herding breed¹ to appea...
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